“You Are A Mookhead”
I think it was either David St. Hobbins or Derek Smalls, who said in a commentary in the DVD version of the movie, This Is Spinal Tap, something along the lines of, “it really helps mark the passage of time, someone dying.” I recently was taking stock of life, am I half way there, will I live that long, will I have an adequate pension and security and will the Gardai ever catch up with me for stealing that 49p Action Man figure when I was 10?
I’ve gone through a lot of change in life in recent times. Lost friends, gained friends, change in life circumstances. Big life changes seem to remind us of our mortality and the true frailty of life. Its usually at night, in the quiet and darkness that surrounds us, where our fears or hopes are realised.
We make mistakes too as human beings. Its part of life. Sometimes its difficult not to. We can do 10 things right in life but it only takes 1 thing to undo all that. Sometimes of course, we make repeated mistakes and it takes a while for us to fix the things we do wrong. That’s when the problems really start. Sometimes it can be hard to understand why people in our lives make those mistakes and even harder to understand their intentions. But there comes a point where a line is drawn. You have to decide whether you can support that person and stick by that person. Its not an easy thing to do. And you have to take stock of how you feel about it.
If you have something good, hang on to it. If it needs fixing, fix it. Don’t let go of a good thing.
And then what? Life goes on. Someone important in my life once told me, “You were always 5 Neil”. Hopefully someday I won’t be.
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